Ms. New Jersey Carolyn Slade Harden is crowned Ms. Senior America during the 38th Annual National Ms. Senior America 2017 Pageant at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey October 19, 2017. The pageant is held for women between the ages of 60 and 90, where they participate in evening gown presentations, talent performances, and a category in which competitors share their life philosophy. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

A troupe charges and fire their rifles loaded with gunpowder during a national competition for Tabourida, a traditional horse riding show also known as Fantasia, in El Jadida, Morocco, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

People listen to Big & Rich perform during a benefit concert honoring first responders and those affected by the recent Las Vegas mass shooting, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Las Vegas. Some survivors of the mass shooting said they were ready for closure, though they confessed feeling engulfed by anxiety and security fears while gathering in a large group for the first time since the attack. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Philippine soldiers from Marawi are welcomed home by their relatives at Villamor Airbase in Manila on October 20, 2017. Pro-IS gunmen occupied parts of Marawi, the Islamic capital of the mainly Catholic Philippines, on May 23 and has claimed more than 1,000 lives and displaced 400,000. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

The Los Angeles Dodgers players celebrate after Game 5 of baseball’s National League Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Chicago. The Dodgers won 11-1 to win the series and advance to the World Series. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 photo, fighters from the Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, hold a celebration in Paradise Square in Raqqa, Syria. The Kurdish female militia that took part in freeing the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State group said on Thursday it will continue the fight to liberate women from the extremists’ brutal rule. (AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim)

Kenyan police attempt to arrest prominent Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi, after he complained that police shot him in the chest with a tear gas grenade, before he escaped at a demonstration against police killings of protesters and opposition supporters, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Police fired tear gas grenades and rifles in the air to disperse around 20 activists as they were still gathering in Uhuru Park, despite a court order Tuesday that removed the government’s ban on demonstrations. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

U. S. midfielder Julie Ertz (8) celebrates her goal with teammates Samantha Mewis (3) and Alex Morgan, right, during the first half of an international friendly women’s soccer match against South Korea in New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Exhausted Rohingya Muslim boys, who spent four days in the open after crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, sleep near a relief distribution centre at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. More than 580,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Myanmar security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. Myanmar’s government has said it was responding to attacks by Muslim insurgents, but the United Nations and others have said the response was disproportionate. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Residential buildings are decorated with colorful lights, as a firecracker lights up, during Diwali festival in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Worried especially by the impact on the health of children, the Supreme Court this year banned the sale of firecrackers, that is usually in huge demand across the country as the evening sky is lit up by the festivities, in the Indian capital and neighboring areas to prevent a toxic haze after the Diwali nights that has residents hiding indoors. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A tenement block housing mostly fishermen families is illuminated with lights during Diwali in Mumbai India, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is being celebrated across the country Thursday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Gene Kuhn and his wife Mary Ann, of Omaha, Neb., look out at welcome sign thanking first responders while riding the Napa Valley Wine Train on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Oakville, Calif. The train resumed running on this week after last week’s wildfires. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Randy Furniss, of Idaho, gets punched in the face as he walks through a crowd of protesters outside a University of Florida auditorium where white nationalist Richard Spencer was preparing to speak, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 in Gainesville, Fla. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)

Protesters carry a banner that reads in Portuguese “Mothers and families fight for a dignified meal” as they march against Sao Paulo Mayor Joao Doria’s plans to serve school meals made of reprocessed food pellets in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. The pellets are made of dehydrated leftovers and resemble popcorn, and some are mixed into other foods, like cakes, while others can be eaten directly. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In this Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 photo, a resident tries to connect electrical lines downed by Hurricane Maria in preparation for when electricity is restored in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. A month after the storm rolled across the center of Puerto Rico, power is still out for the vast majority. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Enrique Hernandez and Clayton Kershaw celebrate after Game 5 of baseball’s National League Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Chicago. The Dodgers won 11-1 to win the series and advance to the World Series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Memphis tight end Sean Dykes (5) celebrates his go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes of an NCAA college football game against Houston, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Houston. Memphis won 42-38. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)

Dusk light fades behind the warmly illuminated royal crematorium and funeral complex for the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Thai artists and craftsmen have put the finishing touches on the elaborate crematorium complex ahead of the funeral of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who reigned for 70 years before his death on Oct. 13, 2016. Bhumibol will be honored in an elaborate royal cremation ceremony from Oct. 25 to 29. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Honda rider Marc Marquez of Spain competes during the second practice session of the Australian MotoGP Grand Prix at Phillip Island on October 20, 2017. (PAUL CROCK/AFP/Getty Images)

Paul Bersebach spent 25 years as a news photographer after graduating from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. He started working his way up at newspapers in the Midwest before coming to The Orange County Register in 1999. Paul was a staff photographer at the Register for 15 years before becoming a photo editor. He currently oversees photo coverage for the Local and Travel sections of the paper as well as stories on the website, plus managing the Register Instagram account.

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